A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.
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Related A non-religious prison when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religi... LORD MAHAVIRA A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. JESSAMYN WEST A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, ... FRANK HERBERT To awaken the sleeping and rouse the loitering is a work of supreme mercy, and to seek the truth in ... MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from. STEVEN MAGEE We awaken by asking the right questions. We awaken when we see knowledge being spread that goes agai... SUZY KASSEM We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ELBERT HUBBARD What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patienc... IVO ANDRIC It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog.
[It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.] UNKNOWN I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. ISOROKU YAMAMOTO Want Truth more than you want to awaken and the awakening takes care of itself. MARIA ERVING When we awaken to our truth, we realize we are free. KRISTI BOWMAN The wins are gonna come. We're going to re-awaken this sleeping giant. ROY CULBERSON Music is awaken of soul. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet t... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet t... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Everybody likes to befriend a Soft spoken person. Therefore one should always speak good of others a... RIG VEDA A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath ... KILROY J. OLDSTER And you have created religiions,gods,prayers,rituals,out of your dreams - your gods are as much part... OSHO Just as I'd felt the warmth of darkness, I could feel the cool breeze of divinity. KRISTEN DAY Just as I felt the warmth of darkness, I could feel the cool breeze of divnity KRISTEN DAY I thought I was going to be the first person to die from gum build up clogging my stomach cavity KATIE KACVINSKY If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your de... LAO TZU When I dream go into a parallel universe: dreaming of my past memories that my subconscious was hold... MARIAH REBECCA ARGUELLO To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually. ECKHART TOLLE His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you. CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good. THOMAS HOOKER Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will co... ABHIJIT NASKAR I would give out, just like a horse, and lay down in the road and drop off to sleep and when 1 would... CHARLES GOODNIGHT Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep! He hath awaken from the dream of life! PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself. FRANCES WRIGHT Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep a... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep ag... LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Heavenly possibilities are but words on a page, when the truth lies within the heart. Awaken. JESS Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious... LORD ACTON I am not the type of person who would call into question the religious beliefs of others. RYAN CHURCH When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it dow... JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY When you awaken and are self aware, you heal. When you heal, you heal the world. EILEEN ANGLIN It Is Time To Awaken The Thunder Within YOU! DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. MADAME DE STAEL Even a good love song can sort of awaken people. The way we travel and meet one another at the cross... DAR WILLIAMS Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first t... EUGEN HERRIGEL When God wakes up, he turns on the sun ANJIE HENLEY I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things toge... HéLèNE CIXOUS When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes. HOWARD W. NEWTON Sleeping is good for good health! When you skip a moment’s good sleep, you skip a moment’s good ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Awaken the divinity within thy soul. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I would awaken, be awakened with this horrible heat — this internal heat. KATE SMITH I would awaken, be awakened with this horrible heat this internal heat. KATE SMITH How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to ... ALBERT EINSTEIN Do not be led by others, awaken your own mind, amass your own experience, and decide ... VEDA Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do th... PAULO COELHO My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. PEACE PILGRIM My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. PILGRIMS Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us... DōGEN Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you beg... BAYARD TAYLOR Therefore, I think that his visit is a good thing. TARO ASO We awaken by asking the right questions. SUZY KASSEM Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about your... SOLANGE KNOWLES Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel. MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON John is a person of strength. He knows who he is. He's a very religious person. He's been through so... JOE LIEBERMAN Time to heal, my friends. My friends, it's time to heal. Awaken from your sufferings and spread some... MIA RANALDO To awaken quite alone in a strange parallel universe is the priceless moment to a time traveler! VISHWANATH S J If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it? DEJAN STOJANOVIC Our heartbeat is to see the campuses of this nation awaken to God. LOUIE GIGLIO I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt ... RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN Praying five times a day does not make a person religious, helping five people does. Saying grace be... ABHIJIT NASKAR Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do t... PAULO COELHO A good sales person is not only one who can sell others products and services but one who can sell h... LALIT BHOJWANI There is no illusion in awaken mind, because everything is perceived as impermanent and transient. ADITYA AJMERA To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. FREYA STARK The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they c... ECKHART TOLLE Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace. NIKKI ROWE Let those who are awake awaken the dormant in every matter which desperately needs the liberating li... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Sometimes you don't want to embarrass anybody because you don't want to awaken them. We've got to st... MARTIN BRODEUR Coffee awakens civilization. DAIRI BOY BARISTA I have more online contacts than I can count. I make about one hundred connections a day. I have acc... KATIE KACVINSKY The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up. JED MCKENNA Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened b... SOREN KIERKEGAARD Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened ... SOREN KIERKEGAARD From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not a... EDGAR ALLAN POE Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sle... MALCOLM DE CHAZAL There’s nothing perhaps more that can be said to awaken the people’s mind; but if a person can�... ANUJ SOMANY Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any... ECKHART TOLLE We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness. THICH NHAT HANH We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it wh... JOHN CALVIN The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge. ALBERT EINSTEIN You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken. T. SCOTT MCLEOD A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. BOB MARLEY Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science and he will be silent. Ask a religious perso... KEDAR JOSHI And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine. NOVALIS Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dor... MARK HELPRIN Especially when a person is deceased, you want to remember all the good things. The two fears of wri... ED WILKS It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge. CHARLES M. DICKINSON It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ALBERT EINSTEIN Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal... MALCOLM DE CHAZAL
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Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion. LORD MAHAVIRA A non-religious prison when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religi... LORD MAHAVIRA All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities. MAHAVIRA One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards hi... MAHAVIRA All are my friends. I have no enemies. MAHAVIRA The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element. MAHAVIRA If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Unti... MAHAVIRA The nature of things is dharma. MAHAVIRA Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency. MAHAVIRA Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence. MAHAVIRA Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline. MAHAVIRA Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite. MAHAVIRA Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting. MAHAVIRA By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tenden... MAHAVIRA Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings. MAHAVIRA Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and ... MAHAVIRA Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love. MAHAVIRA Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is... MAHAVIRA If one undertakes retrospection of the day's events, one must do it regularly at the appointed h... MAHAVIRA Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will ... MAHAVIRA In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own se... MAHAVIRA Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living bei... MAHAVIRA All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, ... MAHAVIRA Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. LORD BYRON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. LORD SALISBURY I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh... LORD BYRON In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting. LORD KELVIN What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom... LORD BYRON There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ... WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect. WALTER LORD I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing. WALTER LORD It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a... WALTER LORD Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no... WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future. WALTER LORD I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa... WALTER LORD Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. WALTER LORD What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one... JACK LORD The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct... LORD HAILSHAM Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ... LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ... LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not... LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which... LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth. LORD BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim. LORD BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let... LORD BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. LORD BYRON Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, lear... LORD MOUNTBATTEN What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each... LORD BYRON That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong. LORD MELBOURNE To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. LORD ACTON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. LORD BYRON We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape... PHIL LORD The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu... LORD SHAFTESBURY Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored. LORD BYRON Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical. LORD MELBOURNE What really matters is what you do with what you have. SHIRLEY LORD Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do! LORD PALMERSTON It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t... LORD NORTHCLIFFE I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ... LORD BYRON True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, an... LORD SHAFTESBURY It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im... LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love. LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below. LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led. LORD BYRON The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa... LORD CHESTERFIELD Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile. LORD SAMUEL A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. LORD MELBOURNE My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in... LORD MELBOURNE Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. LORD MELBOURNE The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte... LORD SHAFTESBURY How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with ... LORD ROSEBERY If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs... LORD CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ... LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. LORD LONGFORD God help the patient. LORD MANSFIELD The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned. LORD SHAWCROSS You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press... LORD BUCKLEY I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel... LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. LORD CHESTERFIELD Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will... LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas... LORD CHESTERFIELD The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ... LORD JEFFREY Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. LORD CHESTERFIELD It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov... LORD MELBOURNE Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha... LORD CHESTERFIELD A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. LORD NORTHCLIFFE Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ... LORD MELBOURNE It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. LORD SHAFTESBURY I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. LORD NELSON A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. LORD CHESTERFIELD Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. LORD CHESTERFIELD Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you... LORD CHESTERFIELD Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners. LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ... LORD CHESTERFIELD One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an... LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc... LORD CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ... LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. LORD CHESTERFIELD Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo... LORD CHESTERFIELD In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. LORD CHESTERFIELD Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor,... SHIRLEY LORD It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same. LORD MELBOURNE Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the gre... LORD MELBOURNE Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. ... LORD HANSON Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. LORD CHESTERFIELD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torm... LORD CHESTERFIELD Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. LORD CHESTERFIELD Win hearts, and you have hands and purses. LORD BURLEIGH Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds. LORD CHESTERFIELD The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There i... LORD GREVILLE No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine... LORD CHESTERFIELD Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have. LORD GREVILLE Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. LORD CHESTERFIELD I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything. LORD MELBOURNE Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to... LORD CHESTERFIELD Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instrument... LORD CHESTERFIELD No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself. LORD KAMES Character must be kept bright as well as clean. LORD CHESTERFIELD You must look into people, as well as at them. LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word. LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old... LORD CHESTERFIELD Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different. LORD SAMUEL Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ... LORD MANSFIELD You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow... LORD MELBOURNE Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. LORD CHESTERFIELD There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi... LORD CHESTERFIELD The physically fit can enjoy their vices. LORD PERCIVAL Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,... LORD CHESTERFIELD Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an... LORD CHESTERFIELD A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. LORD CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. LORD CHESTERFIELD History is but a confused heap of facts. LORD CHESTERFIELD The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. LORD MELBOURNE Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. LORD CHESTERFIELD The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t... LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. LORD CHESTERFIELD If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. LORD CHESTERFIELD Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. LORD ESSEX Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo... LORD CHESTERFIELD Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco... LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. LORD CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo... LORD CHESTERFIELD True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all. LORD MANSFIELD In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. LORD CHESTERFIELD Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v... LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. LORD CHESTERFIELD It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ... LORD CHESTERFIELD Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. LORD CHESTERFIELD Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. LORD JEFFREY If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done. LORD MELBOURNE True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte... LORD MANSFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m... LORD CHESTERFIELD If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. LORD CHESTERFIELD He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. LORD CHESTERFIELD Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder. LORD BARNETT Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ... LORD CHESTERFIELD The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe... LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love... LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s... LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work. LORD BEAVERBROOK Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. LORD DUNSANY Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t... LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. LORD CHESTERFIELD England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. LORD BURLEIGH The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. LORD CHESTERFIELD Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea... LORD BURLEIGH Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t... LORD CHESTERFIELD A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart... LORD GREVILLE A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil... LORD CHESTERFIELD Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score... LORD CHESTERFIELD I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ... LORD CHESTERFIELD Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. LORD CHESTERFIELD Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man... LORD CHESTERFIELD Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning... LORD CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit... LORD CHESTERFIELD Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so. LORD CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ... LORD CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ... LORD CHESTERFIELD I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. LORD NELSON I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. LORD NELSON Business is more exciting than any game. LORD BEAVERBROOK The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely ... LORD CHESTERFIELD The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e... LORD CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o... LORD CHESTERFIELD All science is either physics or stamp collecting. LORD KELVIN Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. LORD CHESTERFIELD Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th... 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